by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE, Nov 13 – For days Inner City Press had heard from its sources there would be a "takedown" on February 6, each SDNY Magistrate Judge would handle seven to 10 defendants.
Arrests happen at 6 am. So at 5:55 am Inner City Press tweeted it, first to X subscribers with the spoiler alert: the expectation was that each of the current or former NYCHA employees would be released on bond the same day.
And then hours later at 9:39 am the prosecutors announced it. Media rushed around reporting it. Inner City Press had it first, and after discretely waiting, published it first. Then this thread of presentments, here
On September 16, NYCHA defendant Charles Starks moved to dismiss, noting that the indictment provided "almost no detail on... the timing" - and citing the Supreme Court's Snyder v. US decision.
On November 12, NYCHA defendant Hector Colon was moving toward trial to start on November 18. Inner City Press went to the final pre-trial conference, where discussion ranged from a Punjabi interpreter to voir dire.
This happens after Starks' Snyder motion was denied, and Joy Harris was found guilty in the first of these NYCHA trials.
Watch this site.
This case is USA v. Colon, 1:24-cr-367 (Liman)
Watch this site - and these feeds: X and X for subscribers.
And Substack here
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